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Ground-Rice and Honey Pudding

A baked pudding made from ground rice, honey, butter, water, and baking soda.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,327 recipes. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Ground-Rice and Honey Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the honey and butter

  1. Boil the honey and skim off the foam.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  3. Add the honey to the melted butter.

Make the mixture

  1. Stir in the ground rice, hot water, and dissolved baking soda.

  2. Cook over low heat, stirring until thickened.

Bake and serve

  1. Butter a baking dish and pour the mixture into it.

  2. Level the surface with a spoon and bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until browned.

  3. Cut into squares or triangles, arrange on a dish, sift sugar over them, and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Honey + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Honey + ricetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together542 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

White honey
Adds sweetness and moisture, and its sugars help the top brown in the oven.
Ground rice
Provides the body of the pudding, thickening as its starch cooks in the liquid.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich flavour and a softer, more tender texture.
Baking soda
Helps the surface brown and lightens the texture of the baked pudding.

The step that matters

Cook over low heat, stirring until thickened. Ground rice starch swells and thickens as it heats, but it can settle, stick and scorch on the base of the pan. Constant stirring over low heat keeps the mixture smooth and evenly thickened.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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